In the turbulent spring of 1941, amidst the heated and often violent coal miner strikes of Harlan County, Kentucky, a 42-year-old male United Mine Workers of America organizer named Virgil Hampton was killed. His death on April 2nd was not an isolated incident but the culmination of a bitter and bloody day that saw three other union men fall alongside him. The air in Harlan was thick with tension as miners picketed for their rights, a struggle that frequently pitted them against the formidable p
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